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I got a vague “save the date” this morning from the Xbox team, announcing the “World Premiere ‘Project Natal’ for Xbox 360 Experience” on June 13 and a media briefing the next day. No way, I thought – Microsoft isn’t launching Project Natal, the controllerless Xbox add-on, six months early, is it? …

Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton, a principal designer who focuses on the “natural user interface,” has a knack for making 8-minute videos go by in a flash. In the video below, he talks about moving beyond the multitouch pinch-and-zoom of today’s mobile devices and making our interaction with them much more natural. …

Sure, Chuck Thacker now works at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. But the computer scientist is best known – and on Tuesday won the field’s highest prize – for his decades of influential work in computing. …

Courtesy of Microsoft You know the downside of the Microsoft Surface table? It’s giant, heavy and expensive. Wouldn’t the average consumer be more apt to get excited about a smaller, lightweight, portable version? …

You may have heard of him. Bill Buxton is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, specializing in the “natural user interface” illustrated by both Xbox’s Project Natal and the Surface tabletop computer. …

Andy Rogers/Microsoft/HO/Getty ImagesIn this Nov. 14, 2001, photo, signs at Microsoft’s Redmond campus are illuminated green to commemorate the launch of the company’s then-new Xbox gaming console. At Microsoft, internal competition has created a “dysfunctional corporate culture” that thwarts innovation by belittling emerging teams that work on cutting-edge technologies, a former executive wrote in a New York Times op-ed column Thursday. …